Robert frost,罗伯特弗洛斯特 (18741963),Life,Works,Literary style,Influence,Other Information,Robert Frost,His Home,Robert Frost was a great poet who was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. Though born in America, he came of New England stock(血统), his ancestors for nine generations being New Englanders and living in Lowell, Massachusetts （洛厄尔马萨诸塞州 ）.,When Robert was 11 his father died, and the family moved to Massachusetts in New England where his mother taught to earn a living.,Life and Writing Career,After graduating from high school, Frost had studied at Dartmouth College （达特茅斯学院）(in 1893), but remained less than 1 semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter.,,In 1895 he married Elinor White , who became a major inspiration in his poetry, and then the newlyweds continued to teach, which Frost always enjoyed .,In 1900 Elliot died of cholera In 1907 Elinor Bettina died just one day after birth In 1934 his beloved daughter Marjorie died after the birth of her first child In 1938 his wife Elinor died of a heart attack. In 1940 Carol committed suicide.,Frost, his wife Elinor and their children:,After his marriage, Frost studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (18971899), but left without receiving a degree due to family problems and poor health.,This was no doubt an important period in his development, for he was distinctly and almost exclusively the poet of the New England countryside and country people.,In 1900, his grandfather bought him a farm in New Hampshire (新罕布什尔州) from which he wrested (费力地取得) a living，supplemented by teaching, for 12 years.,In 1912, at the age of 38, Frost decided to try to make a new start. He sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he became acquainted with the F.S. Flint, Edward Thomas, and Ezra Pound, who called Frosts poems “modern georgics(田园诗).,Fortunately he had his first two volumes of verse, A Boys Will 孩子的意愿 (for which he got a review from the famous American expatriate (移居外国的) poet Ezra Pound), and North of Boston 波士顿以北published in London with the help of Ezra Pound.,In 1915 Frost came back to the United States. While devoting himself to poetry he taught at Amherst College (阿默斯特)to support himself.,His fame was steadily on the increase, he published a succession of books: Mountain Interval 山间, New Hampshire新罕布什尔，West-Running Brook 西去的溪流, Collected Poems 诗歌全集etc.,In 1920, Frost bought Stone House (now a museum) in South Shaftsbury, Vermont. Frost lived there from1920 to 1929. There he wrote many of the poems contained in his fourth collection of poetry New Hampshire 新罕布什尔(1923) which won him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923.,Stone House,In 1930 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.,After the death of his wife (in 1938), Frost became strongly attracted to Kay Morrison, whom he employed as his secretary and adviser. Frost also composed for her one of his finest love poems, A Witness Tree 见证树.,In 1958 he was made poetry consultant for the Library of Congress.,When he was as old as eighty-seven, two years before his death, he was chosen to read one of his poems, “The Gift Outright” (1942) at the inauguration （就职典礼）of the late President John F. Kennedy.,Robert Frost died on the 29th of January 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. He lies buried in the family plot in the Old Bennington Cemetery behind the Old First Congregational Church near Shaftsbury, Vermont. His gravestone reads I Had A Lovers Quarrel With The World.,In 1961 he was invited to read his poetry at the inauguration(就职典礼) of President John F. Kennedy.” The Gift Outright ”全才 At the time of his death on January 29,1963, Frost was considered as a kind of unofficial poet laureate(桂冠诗人) of the US.,I had a lovers quarrel with the world. 我和这个世界有过情人般的争吵。
Some famous poems The Road Not Taken未选择的路 Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 雪夜林边驻脚 Fire and Ice火与冰 Mending Wall补墙 Nothing Gold Can Stay美景易逝 The Birches白桦树,The Books of Poetry New Hampshire 新罕布什尔 Collected Poems 诗歌精选 A Further Range 又一片牧场 A Witness Tree 见证树,Literary style Frosts poems show deep appreciation of natural world and sensibility about the human aspirations. All the images (woods, stars, houses) he uses reflect the poets love for nature and life, his sad experience in life and the influence religion exerted upon western peoples daily life.,He is a poet of profound simplicity(朴素). He did not write free verse but in the traditional metrical (韵律的) forms---rhymed stanzas and blank verse. He used the old forms in a new way. His poetic language was plain, clearly conveying a feeling in harmony with nature.,He seemed universally calm and controlled, standing in the middle of the road viewing good and evil, beautiful and ugly. In his view, a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom”. 诗要“兴于喜悦，而终于彻悟”,Robert Frost is a very talented inspiring writer and his poetry is enjoyable to read. His use of rhyme sch。